Calendar

Wednesday, November 7

• 3:00 PM Wednesday@Hariri/Meet Our Fellows: "Family Planning Interventions in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Experimental Evidence from Malawi, India, and Sri Lanka", Mahesh Karra (Global Development Policy)

  The Hariri Institute for Computing continues its Wednesday@Hariri/Meet Our Fellows series with Junior Faculty Fellow Mahesh Karra. Refreshments & networking at 2:45PM.

Thursday, November 8

• 11:30 AM Red Hat Colloquium: “Chameleon: New Capabilities for Experimental Computer Science”, Kate Keahey (University of Chicago)

  This talk will describe the evolution of the testbed as well as the current work towards broadening the range of supported experiments. In particular, Kate will discuss recently deployed hardware […]

• 6:30 PM BU Spark! & SAIL Info Session

  Come learn about paid internships and experiential learning opportunities at BU Spark! and SAIL to collaborate with researchers and external partners on cutting-edge technologies and real-world projects. Applications for […]

Monday, November 12

• 10:30 AM AIR Seminar: “CreativeAI: Machine Learning meets 3D Content Creation", Niloy Mitra (University College London)

  In this talk, Niloy will discuss the latest results in this area and discuss how futuristic content creation workflows are likely to be. This has the potential to revolutionize how […]

• 6:00 PM BU Spark! & SAIL Info Session

  Come learn about paid internships and experiential learning opportunities at BU Spark! and SAIL to collaborate with researchers and external partners on cutting-edge technologies and real-world projects. Applications for […]

Wednesday, November 14

• 11:30 AM Red Hat Colloquium: “Software-Configured Compute Environments”, Ulrich Drepper (Red Hat)

  Red Hat welcomes Ulrich Drepper from the office of the CTO. Drepper joined Red Hat again in 2017, after a seven year hiatus when he worked for Goldmann Sachs. He […]

• 3:30 PM "Sharenthood: How the Digital Tech Habits of Parents, Teachers, and Other Trusted Adults Harm Kids & Teens", Leah Plunkett (UNH)

  In this Cyber Alliance talk, Prof. Plunkett will discuss the questions raised by Sharenthood. The book, written for a general audience, unpacks the everyday, innocent mistakes adults make with kids’ […]

Wednesday, November 28

• 3:30 PM Cyber Alliance Speaker Series: Danny Weitzner (MIT)

  BU Cyber Alliance welcomes Danny Weitzner, Founding Director of the MIT Internet Policy Research Initiative and Principal Research Scientist at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab.

Monday, December 3

• 10:30 AM
  • Seminar
  Building and Evaluating Conversational Agents–Joao Sedoc, Univ of Pennsylvania

  Dialog is a challenging problem since it spans multiple conversational turns. To further complicate the problem, there are many contextual cues and valid possible utterances. We propose that dialog is […]

Tuesday, December 4

• 7:30 AM
  • Seminar
  Boston Women’s Workforce Council Annual Effective Practices Conference

Friday, December 7

• 11:00 AM CS Distinguished Lecture Series: “Learning Models that See Through Walls and Sense Sleep and Vital Signs"–Professor Dina Katabi, MIT

  In this talk, I introduce neural network models that infer the human Pose through obstacles, i.e., they infer the skeletal representations of the joints on the arms and legs, and

Monday, December 10

• 11:00 AM AIR Seminar Series: "New Algorithms for Interpretable Machine Learning in High Stakes Decisions" – Cynthia Rudin, Duke University

  ABSTRACT: With the widespread use of machine learning, there have been serious societal consequences from using black box models for high-stakes decisions, including flawed models for medical imaging, and poor […]

Tuesday, December 11

• 1:00 PM Computer Science Poster Session: Machine Learning (CS542)
• 3:00 PM Computer Science Poster Session: Data Mechanics (CS506)

Wednesday, December 12

• 2:30 PM Computer Science Poster Session: Privacy Machine Learning (CS591 SI)

  Professor Adam Smith

• 3:45 PM Cyber Alliance Speaker Series: “From Soft Classifiers to Hard Decisions: How Fair Can We Be?”–Sarah Scheffler, Boston Univ

  As algorithms are increasingly used to make important decisions in the lives of individuals, computer scientists have begun to investigate how to ensure that these decisions are made in a […]

Friday, December 14

• 4:00 PM Computer Science Poster Session: Innovation Fellows (CS491) and X-Lab Practicum (CS591)

  Professor & Director Ziba Cranmer

Wednesday, January 16

• 3:30 PM Cyber Alliance Speaker Series: “The 26 Words That Created the Internet: The History and Future of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act”–Jeff Kosseff

  By providing unprecedented legal immunity to online platforms for all claims arising from user content, the law is responsible for social media, search engines, Wikipedia, Yelp, and any other online […]

Wednesday, January 30

• 3:30 PM Cyber Alliance Speaker Series: “It’s Too Complicated, How the Internet Upends Katz, Smith, and Electronic Surveillance Law”–Susan Landau, Tufts University

  Electronic surveillance law seeks to balance protecting the privacy of the people while enabling government's surveillance capabilities. In the U.S., legal frameworks governing surveillance have, for forty years, drawn a […]